Welcome to part 2 of a multi-part series on how to conduct scientific experiments using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This tutorial will show you how to: Set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester Account. Set up a HIT template that will link to your online experiment. You will need to have a pre-developed online experiment or [...]

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has put together a Human Factors Prize aimed at recognizing excellence in human factors/ergonomics research. This is a new competition aimed at recruiting authors to publish in one of the top human factors journals aptly named Human Factors. Submissions must be unpublished manuscripts based on the chosen theme for [...]

Welcome to part 1 of a multi-part series on how to conduct scientific experiments using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This tutorial will show you how to: Set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester Account. Set up a HIT template that will link to your online experiment. You will need to have a pre-developed online experiment or [...]

This website demonstrates what an interface that does not require mouse clicking could look like. I wouldn’t call this a research experiment exactly, but the developers do collect usage data and apparently they record the mouse movements for all users who visit the site. I think this is an important topic to explore, especially with [...]

I am currently in the middle of publishing some useful workload measurement desktop applications to the Adobe Marketplace and Intel AppUp Center. Currently the Human-Robot Interaction Workload Measurement tool (HRI-WM)  is under review and the NASA-TLX app will be ready by the end of the week. I will update this blog when each are available for purchase [...]

Some of my research involves understanding how people become engaged, and how engagement can be measured and induced in certain situations. Tom Chatfield gives a great Ted talk about his ideas of engagement in terms of video games and reward systems. He talks about emotional engagement and collective engagement, and touches on how the two can be [...]

I thought I’d share a little app I developed that lets you upload and save your EndNote reference list. After uploading, you will be able to access your references from any computer or mobile device with an Internet connection. You can also use this to share your list(s) with other people. It’s not exactly cutting edge [...]

Since Flow Theory is one of the primary frameworks that I use in my current research, I figured I should know how to correctly pronounce Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s name. I’ve heard many different pronunciations in the past, but the video below helped me figure it out along with this very gauche break down: Me-high Chick-sent-me-high Here [...]

Trailblazing is an online, interactive timeline launched to commemorate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary in 2010. As part of their celebration, the Royal Society has decided to release 60 of their scientific journal articles for your reading pleasure. There are many fascinating articles but I decided to highlight some that fall more inline with my [...]

I just finished developing an Online version of the NASA-TLX (http://www.nasatlx.com) and thought I would share. The procedure behind the NASA-TLX was developed by the Human Performance Group at the NASA Ames Research Center. The goal of the TLX is to help researchers gather people’s subjective cognitive workload assessments when participating in various tasks. The [...]